CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931 — Page 45

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Advisory Committee on Education in the

Colonies on this general question will

be forwarded to you in due course. It

was thought more convenient to deal

separately with the questions raised by

the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

2.

I referred Sir William Hornell's

Minute and your despatch to my Advisory

Committee on Education, and they considered

the subject at two meetings, at the first

of which Sir Cecil Clementi, K. C.M.G., Sir

R. F. Johnston, C.M.G., C.B.E., Professor

W. E. Soothill, M.A., and Mr. A.H. Crook,

O.B.E., who had been invited to be present,

participated in the discussion.

3.

The Committee passed the following

resolutions on the subject:-

(a) "The Committee support the Vice-Chancellor

in his proposals for the entrance examination

to Hong Kong University, but would draw attention

to the consequential alterations which appear

to be necessary in the school curriculum.

(b) The Committee are impressed with the

desirability of founding a faculty for the study

of Chinese literature worthy of the University,

but